Customer Ratings & Reviews

Purchased to use during our Carribean vacation...even though it did lock up during usage at a show I managed to get in working condition in time for our sting ray and snorkeling outing. It worked to my expectation and then some!!! Easy to use; light weight and for the price what else can you expect??? Some other vacationers with expensive cameras were jealous :-) They had issues with batteries, view finder, ease of use and camera weight. Can't wait for next underwater experience!!!

Use this to video offshore fishing in the Gulf. WOW!! The videos were great. Easy to shoot, and easy to hook-up to TV and replay. Didn't have to worry about salt water and fishing hands. Just rinsed it off. The best sdhc cards I've used in it are PNY Class 10's, 20mb/s. The sandisk extreme did not want to format. There are optional lenses available, and they work. The wide angle worked great on boat.

I bought this to take on my family's trip to Universal Studios and the Orlando area for vacation. It was extremely convient to slip into my pocket and carry around. Most people think it's a cell phone. I was fun to use in the pool and water parks. The battery life was decent and lasted entire days walking around theme parks. I stood in line with someone else who had purchased the black version before his trip and he seemed to be enjoying his. The only complaint I have is the lack of a flash. The picture quality wasn't good under low light. I think a flash or some sort of light would have helped with that.

We purchased this camera because of its underwater capability (up to 3m) and use it during our Hawaiian vacation to film our snorkling excursions. It did great in filming land scenes during a variety of activities and the features and quality of video is outstanding. However, once I got it into the water, to film some great looking fish along a shallow reef, the camera froze up! None of the buttons would work and the camera would not turn off even after rinsing thoroughly in fresh water per the instructions. I noticed that the LCD display was discolored due to the seepage of moisture and the camera lens had water droplets condensed all over it. The camera also got very hot at this time. I opened the SDHC memory card door to get the flash card out and when I blew into it, a spray of water blew back onto my face. I finally got the camera to turn off by pressing the "reset" button per instructions found in the manual. It took over 24 hrs to evaporate all the water in the camera and return the LCD display to normal coloration. I was disconcerted by the fact that the user's manual anticipates this water leakage and gives trouble-shooting instructions on what to do--but that did not work! When I put the charger on the camera it again would not turn off unless I pressed the reset button. Also, the latch on the memory card door will now not close and is stuck in the open position. I went online and discovered that these symptoms are common to this camera (e.g., refer to reviews under "black" version of this camera). The camera is useless now and my only hope is to buy a separate memory card reader to extract the approximate 4 hrs of land video and still pics that are on the Class 10, 32GB memory card. If this does not work, then all our vacation activities (which included a helicoper tour, zip lining and sight seeing to beaches and the volcanoe) will be lost. By the way, our son bought the same camera and took it to Maui for their 10th wedding anniversay and the same exact thing happened to him: fine on land but once in the salt water the camera froze up. Fortunately, we were able to tell them what happened so they took HD video camera back-up with them (we did not). Do not buy this camera unless you intend to use it ONLY for filming HD on land for which it performs extremely well. The fair rating is primarily because this camera cannot be used for its advertised underwater use. Very disappointing and frustrating for a Kodak product. We are returning ours for a refund.

I chose this for shooting my swimming technique. I placed it in a variety of places from the pool deck to the bottom of the pool. It was solid in each area. The one drawback is the lack of a wide angle lens. But remember, it is a very inexpensive camera. Wide angle lenses are going to run on higher end cameras. The picture quality was magnificent and its ease of use is simple!

The Kodak ZX5 is a great out of the box camera. It was easy to understand right out of the box. Liked the Waterproof feature so when my daughter is Kayaking, she does not have to worry about it getting wet. The upload feature to Facebook or other sites was also great to quickly add information to sites. While the resolution is not the hightest in the class, it is good enough for quick videos for a device that slips into your pocket.

Takes fast photo's, great underwater pics, Used it for a wedding and it took great video.

We bought our camera for vacation and love it!!! The only disappointing thing is that we could not use it to video inside some attractions because of lack of lighting.

This is a really fun device to play with, very versatile and easy to use. Do not expect something "professional" but this totally is up to the challenge to most of the other cameras out there.

I haven't had a camcorder for alot of years, but this one is very simple from the first time I picked it up. It has nice definition, and it's so simple. I pop it in my purse and go, and it's great for getting videos of the family, because they are only smiling if they are short videos! It's a nice price, too.